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Montclair State University
6th Annual Student Research Symposium

“Promoting Collaboration across Disciplines”

Sunday, April 22, 2012
8:30 to 6:30 p.m.


The Montclair State University Student Research Symposium is a forum to showcase and reward outstanding scholarship and research by Montclair State University students. The Symposium provides a venue for sharing research with the academic community, peers, and the greater community through oral, poster, or multimedia presentations.

Open to undergraduate and graduate students, the Sixth Annual Montclair State University Student Research Symposium aims to promote interdisciplinary research and collaboration in the hope of instilling in our students the importance of exploring issues from multiple perspectives. Proposals that cross boundaries among disciplines are thus especially encouraged, although all student research endeavors are welcomed. Similarly-themed presentations will be grouped together rather than organizing them by disciplinary or college boundaries.

Students are welcome to submit proposals for oral, poster, or multimedia presentations.
  • Oral presentations: Participants will present as part of a panel of similarly-themed papers. Each presenter will have fifteen minutes (ten minutes for presentation and five minutes for question and answer) to read a paper or to summarize a project and its primary conclusions. Laptops and PowerPoint projection equipment will be available for all oral presentations.

  • Poster presentations: Participants will prepare a single poster that summarizes the overall project through its research questions, methods, and conclusions. During the session authors will be required to be available at their poster to answer questions and explain their project to audience members. Projects where the major points are evident through charts, graphs, and images are well suited to this format. The poster should not require any audiovisual support.

  • Multimedia presentations: Multimedia element (beyond PowerPoint presentations) may be incorporated into the oral presentation sessions. Participants may make their presentations partially or completely using film, video, digital slides and/or other media, but must include, with complete clarity, the project's goals and objectives. Technical requirements (including internet access and equipment) must be stated in the abstract proposal. These presentations are not to exceed 10 minutes, followed by a 5 minute period for questions and answers.

All abstracts must be proofread and approved by a sponsor faculty member before being submitted.

All studies whose participants are human subjects need IRB approval prior to presentation at the Symposium.

Deadline for Abstracts: Spring-February 15, 2012 at 11:00pm

Submissions can be revised for those who are provisionally accepted https://aries.montclair.edu/symposium/.

For any questions, feel free to contact Dr. Matthew Shurts (shurtsm@mail.montclair.edu).